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Annotation:
Lemuel Gulliver travels to several imaginary lands. In one land, he is considered a giant, and in another a tiny creature, and yet another land is run by horses. He learns to look at life in a fresh way.
Personal Reaction:
I read Gulliver's travels in my high school English class. I did not much care for the book then. After reading this version of the book, I have a much better understanding of the story. The pictures and simplified text made it so that I was actually able to understand the book while reading it, as opposed to having a bunch of annoying fancy words flow across the page.
Sophisticated Language:
As this is an abridged version of a book that was written hundreds of years ago,this book is filled with sophisticated language. The very first page is written almost entirely in a sophisticated way. The first page says "My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire and I was the third of five sons. I went to Cambridge to study medicine but my father could not afford to keep me there, so instead I became an apprentice to a surgeon. But it was always in my mind to travel..." If this book was written today, it would have simply said, My dad had a house in Nottinghamshire, and I had 4 brothers......I always wanted to travel"
Curricular Connection: To be read with Gulliver's Travels-High School Honors English
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